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Remember yesterday’s teaser for Prototype 2? Well here’s the trailer it was teasing, and it’s a bit of a disappointment for me. I was hoping to see some gameplay footage to compare and contrast with the original, but it looks like Activision are focussing solely on the story with this trailer. Still, I always thought the first Prototype had quite slick cut-scenes, and from the looks of this trailer, that’s set to continue with the sequel. There are some heavily edited snippets of in game footage included too I suppose, so it’s worth a watch for that. Oh, trailers…

If you never played the original, it’s totally worth grabbing whilst it’s conveniently discounted at both Steam and Direct2Drive (UK/USA).

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Still think Prototype has some of the best fundamental mechanics of any action game in the past couple of years. It’s a blast to run/fly around in that world. I just hope they drastically improve the campaign design this time.

It was also much sillier than Just Cause 1/2 too, much. Which is why I enjoyed it. It was completely ridiculous at times. It was just so OTT. And I certainly enjoyed running and flying around, and engaging in random skill missions to fly good by whomever doled those out. >_>

I still worry though that they’ve serious’d this up and made it like inFamous. The joy of Prototype was in its silliness. It was silly to the point where it could probably stand next to something like Evangelion and outsilly that.

It’s the only game where I’ve snatched helicopters out of the sky with a Mr. Tickle arm.

I hope they keep that about it, because it’s that silliness that just detaches it from just being a ‘man with guns violence game,’ and I tend to enjoy those less, much less, if at all.

I liked the ‘stupid’ stuff, actually. It detached it from just being a game about cold human violence to one about absurd silliness, sort of like that Incredible Hulk game, which I believe this developer was also responsible for (weren’t they?).

It was also entertaining creating a massive, immortal hivemind of everyone I infected. They all ended up in Mercer. The man’s probably a living community by now.

And this is Blacklight, the incredibly nasty military organisation that created the virus. What’s going on here is that they’re trying to rewrite history, so of course they’re juggling the facts around to try and make themselves look as good as possible. And they’re trying to get their soldiers to rally around that. It’s propaganda. They just changed things a bit to better suit their propaganda.

So I don’t think it’s wrong, but more that Blackwatch likes editing history for their propaganda. Because there were a number of things in that video that were ‘incorrect,’ in favour of Blackwatch. :P

I really enjoyed the first one. But I had it on my xbox (back when I was a console gamer) So I don’t really know how fluid the controls are on PC. But using a game pad the first one did really feel at home, So my suggestion would be to try this out on a game pad.

The virus retains the memories and minds of everyone it comes in contact with and keeps them alive in a sort of hive mind, but the virus itself acts on an instinctive level, which means that often the mind(s) that become tied up in it get very confused.

The virus itself is basically just an apex predator pretending to be a person when it needs to.

I personally loved the first game mainly for its fluid movement and feeling of power. I loved just running and gliding around and also enjoyed the ability to charge up jumps and attacks. It was definitely one of my favorite sandbox type game so I really hope this one improves everything. I can’t say the new character is as appealing as Mercer was for me but maybe he will grow on me.